Kraków Entertainment

  1. Cricoteka

    Cricoteka is the archive that documents the avant-garde (and now defunct) Cricot 2 theatre, created in 1955 by Tadeusz Kantor and the city's best-known theatre outside the national borders. Theatre buffs may be interested in visiting this place while the museum that will hold the documents is completed in Podgórze.

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  2. Kino Mikro

    Cinemas that may have some art-house and quality mainstream movies on their programme include Kino Mikro .

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  3. Kino Paradox

    Cinemas that may have some art-house and quality mainstream movies on their programme include Kino Paradox .

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  4. Opera Krakowska

    The Opera Krakowska performs at the Teatr im J Słowackiego (Julius Słowacki Theatre; www.slowacki.krakow.pl; Plac Św Ducha 4) as there's no proper opera house in Kraków.

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  5. Rotunda Cultural Centre

    Cinemas that may have some art-house and quality mainstream movies on their programme include the cinema at the Rotunda Cultural Centre.

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  7. Scena STU

    The 'STU Stage' started in the 1970s as a politically involved student theatre and was immediately successful. Today it is a solid professional troupe performing avant-garde plays.

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  8. Stary Teatr w Krakowie

    This is the best-known (and most beautiful) city theatre and has attracted the cream of the city's actors.

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  9. Teatr Bagatela

    Bagatela is one of the city's leading venues for drama, staging plays by both Polish and foreign writers, although all performances are in Polish. Recent productions include versions of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie , and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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  10. Teatr Groteska

    The 'Grotesque Theatre' stages mostly puppet shows and is especially know for its creepy, wordless version of The Golem, the story of a Frankenstein-like clay creature brought to life by a Prague rabbi.

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  11. Teatr im J Słowackiego

    This important theatre focuses on Polish classics and large-scale productions. It's in a large and opulent building (1893) that's patterned on the Paris Opera, and is southwest of Rynek Główny.

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